I am all for birth centres! Unfortunately, despite my VBAC being a breeze, I don't think one would take me. As it turned out, my ob was really only in the room with me for about 5 minutes during labour and then to stitch me up after. I completely agree that IS how it should be until there is a problem.

I am still stumped as to why a baby's weight is such an issue. Obviously people should stop thinking about it so much, but if we are going to freak out about anything surely it should be head circumference, not weight. The chub round the middle isn't the bit that is hard to get out. Personally I think we need to stop scans late in pregnancy simply to estimate weight. I didn't have any scans after 20 weeks so wouldn't have had a clue about bub's size except for fundus height. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.